----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ..But if y'all wanna discuss marginal films why not Name Jun Piak or Sandy ..Benning, or Extreem Private Eros, or Yalah? What is this a contest to see ..who knows the most about "the other" - ie a reduction of the other to ..triva? Having witnessed page after page of messages about Quentin Tarantino, I sometimes wonder if this is not a fan club. I find the posts about other films and their directors very interesting. I remember one conference where Stuart Kaminsky, Garth Jowett, and I sat over dinner planning a Hugo Haas film festival...a truly trivial but wonderful evening, unliked the labored agonizings of whether Tarantino's use of """""THE ****N**** WORD"""""" makes him a racist. When I saw the film, I thought it was a compilation of homages to various films that I had enjoyed more, a kind of metamovie--one that has no real experiences except other movies to think about. So let me encourage others to send along trivia that relieves the days and lets me think about seeing Canadian or French movies I don't know about. After all, in my introductory classes in the City Colleges of Chicago, a third of my students have never watched "Casablanca", which they would classify as an "obscure" movie. Gerald Forshey Dept of Humanities and Philosophy Daley College--City Colleges of Chicago